What is CAN bus?
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CAN bus (ISO 11898) is a vehicle bus standard that enables robust, efficient and decentralized communication between electronic control units. It is today the de facto standard in practically all automotives (cars, trucks, tractors, buses, motorcycles, ...), maritime vessels, aerospace applications and industrial machinery.

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In this "v2.0" video tutorial we explain the basics of the Controller Area Network (CAN bus):

00:00 Introduction
00:20 What is CAN bus?
02:13 The top 4 benefits of CAN bus
03:29 The history of CAN bus
04:27 The CAN frame incl. the 8 message fields
06:24 CAN bus data logging use case examples
07:37 How to record CAN bus data in practice
09:03 How to decode CAN bus data to physical values
12:38 Higher layer protocols like OBD2, J1939 and CANopen

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INTROS TO CAN BASED PROTOCOLS

This video is part of our extremely popular series of CAN protocol intros. Below you'll find links for our full playlist, as well as the more detailed articles.

Playlist for all intro videos:    • CAN Bus Explained  A Simple Intro [v...  

1) CAN bus: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
2) OBD2: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
3) J1939: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
4) CANopen: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
5) CAN FD: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
6) LIN bus: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
7) DBC files: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...


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RECORDING & DECODING CAN BUS DATA

If you're interested in learning more about logging CAN bus data, we recommend that you check out our below intros to our CANedge CAN bus data loggers, our CANmod sensortoCAN modules and our free software/API tools:

Learn about CAN bus data logging:
   • CANedge: CAN Bus Data Loggers  Intro...  

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1) CANedge1: https://www.csselectronics.com/produc...
2) CANedge2: https://www.csselectronics.com/produc...
3) CANedge3: https://www.csselectronics.com/produc...
4) CANmod.gps: https://www.csselectronics.com/produc...
5) CANmod.temp: https://www.csselectronics.com/produc...
6) CANmod.input: https://www.csselectronics.com/produc...

See also our full intros to practical data logging:

1) Blackbox logger: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
2) OBD2 data logger: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
3) J1939 data logger: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
4) CANopen data logger: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
5) CAN FD data logger: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...
6) LIN data logger: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...

For more tutorials, see our overview: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/...


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ABOUT CSS ELECTRONICS

At CSS Electronics we specialize in simpletouse, pro specs and interoperable CAN bus data loggers like the CANedge and CLX000 series. The devices let you record raw data from e.g. cars, trucks, industrial machinery and other CAN based applications onto an 832 GB SD card. The devices are interoperable, meaning you can process the data in your favorite existing software or use our 100% free and open source software/API tools.

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